Why is it no one can explain what jobs illegal aliens take that American's don't want?

Deanie

In Florida the jobs that the illegals will do that citizens won't is the sugar farms. It's steamy hot, low wages, in the middle of nowhere (therefore no decent schools) and you have to be bused in to the fields everyday. Not quite the American dream.
PLEASE NOTE I am NOT defending illegal immigration, just answering what I know locally.
Personally I believe that a special work visa should be given. 30% of their pay is "banked" and they get it back when they return HOME...this would allow farmers the help they need with the cheap labor, send the workers back with the money they need and allow a rotation of fresh workers. I do believe they work hard...at least here they do. It's a sad site to see their children...they look neglected almost. I'm not judging them, just trying to find a way to curb our tax dollars going to EVERYONE else and keeping our food costs lower.

Carlos D

What Americans will not do is work for slave wages.

Colleen O

Most of the jobs are as migrant farm workers. They follow the planting seasons and go from farm to farm, moving every few months. Also positions of "domestics" House keepers, gardners. It is not that Americans don't WANT thse jobs it is that the employers don't pay enough. Even minimum wage isn't enough to keep up with the cost of living, and most farm workers make less than that!

mixreaction2020

milking the cow
feeding the pig
plucking the chicken
shower dogs and cats
washing dishes
farming
cleaning garbage

green

Well this question just seems a little ridiculous because the jobs that illegal aliens take are precisely the jobs that most Americans wouldn't do. I think I know what you mean though you should have phrased it differently. Any way illegal aliens tend to take the jobs that are tax free and manual labor unless they forge their documents which a lot of them do. I think most Americans that are pissed off about it aren't worried about the jobs that are being consumed by non tax paying citizens they couldn't be because it has been stated that even the aliens that send most of their income to their home state still contribute a large portion to our economy. If you think about it it's almost a good thing: small businesses are getting a break from the government without getting jipped on good workers, it's helping another culture by putting more currency into their country, also and i am talking about immigrants in general not illegal but it is creating a more diverse atmosphere and that is never a bad thing. I think some Americans are just stuffy in nature there is no other way to explain it.

Anne A

A great many food service jobs (restaurant work)!! Cleaning jobs (houses, business' & hotels) cement work, roofing too.
Some Americans will do these jobs, but there arent enough to go around. Simple supply & demand.
The only job I know of that Americans do not typically do is picking fruits & veggies.

ram456456

The jobs Americans donâ€™t want? First, asbestos removal from old buildings how many Americans would do that for a living none. Second, you try roofing in Arizona in 120 degree heat, and labor laws that make it illegal to have native construction workers form closed shop to force contractors to actually pay workers comp, and health insurance benefits. With construction jobs and cutting healthcare benefits itâ€™s not worth it for a lot of them to make 40k a year climb a roof and risk an injury when the health insurance policy canâ€™t cover the cost of the injury or the workers comp policy coverage is crap at best. Immigration reform is useless without labor reform so that roofers, asbestos removal people, carpenters, landscapers donâ€™t have to worry about being bankrupt because of a work injury and a employer refusing to buy decent workers comp insurance. I donâ€™t blame the Mexican here itâ€™s the fact labor laws are weak in dangerous jobs performed. I know the some will argue well, they should go get another job they do in office desk for half the wage because not worth risking your body for double the wage if you know contractors, and employers wont pay for decent workers comp coverage for injured workers. Itâ€™s not all about Mexicans stealing America jobs. Its your guy in the neighbourhood building his own deck by himself goes by the home deport, and talks to migrants needing help setting up posts to pour footing of cement for a deck.
A lot of under the table work is done by small shop owners, and home owners. Its 21st century indentured servant like the South before the Civil war. We need a serious discussion of immigration along with Labor Laws. We do need to shut down business hiring illegal that means not a fine, but confiscation and freezing assets of employers hiring illegal. Would you go to a doctor unlicensed? We need to expand that requirement base to more trades before immigration will be resolved. Also, Guest Worker program Bush is proposing is a good start. Mexico, has structural problems in the economy too that need to be fixed, and those problems require America if push comes to shove to collect taxes off Mexican Billionaires that are not willing to pay Taxes in Mexico. Congress is smoking screening the issuse, and the republicans want the cheap labor under the table, and the democrats want the future voters. Both poltical parties dont see the reality of the problem.

Devils_Advocate

None they just work cheaper. Cheap labor is what takes the jobs. I know alot of Americans who do and will do the same work the illegals do, they just make more money at it is all.

mia2kl2002

Picking crops, things like that.

But actually.... there is a lot more problem with corporations MOVING jobs to other countries... than there is with immigrants taking jobs in the USA.

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GEEZZEE

It's probably comes from the same people that take polls... i don't know of anyone yet that has participated in a pool.

SittinPretty!

Its not that they take the jobs americans dont want, its that they take the jobs that americans dont like to do!! Theres a difference there even though it may be small. Sure there are alot of Americans who would be available to do them, but how willing would they be?! And why do it when theres someone who is so willing to do so? This area of our immigration problems should be blamed not so much on illegal immigrants but on the businesses who hire them, because illegal immigrants are on any given day going to accept being paid 4 -5 dollars an hour when that wage is 4-5 times more than they could make at home.

flutterby

Where I live we don't have an illegal alien problem (yet). Funny how our lawns are mowed, our produce is picked, our houses are being built, restaurants have plenty of staff, etc. So to say that any of these are jobs that Americans won't do is absurd. In response to the comment about the farmers in the NW not having enough workers to pick their crops, my question is this. If there are 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants already in this country, why exactly didn't they have enough workers? Could it be because even the illegals won't work anymore for slave wages?

Pamela N

If you're really worried about someone taking jobs, you need to start looking overseas. Hello! OUSOURCING! Companies are just moving overseas to hire people for cheaper wages, and it's PERFECTLY LEGAL! So think about that the next time you are talking to that customer service rep with an indian accent, and you would'n't be so worried about the mexicans.

Brian S

Because they just throw out myths and can't back them up. Same with the racism argument and helping the economy argument. They rely on labelling, myths, and profanity. If they had any brains they'd try for the compassion vote, but that wouldn't work. Still, it would work better than their current strategy.
Annie A, food service is one of the last jobs would pass up. I work in a kitchen in the summers. And to the answerers below her: You cannot say no one would take a certain job, just as you can't say everyone in the world has muscular dystrophy (just one of the first ones that came to mind).

booktender

Ask the farmers in the NW who had to plow under their crops this year because there were not enough low-pay laborers to pick. Only someone desperate for money and with drive and determination would handle these backbreaking jobs. Americans may be desperate for money but sometimes we fall short on the drive and determination shown by all of our ancestors and current immigrants.

hexa

The only job Americans won't do it crop picking, Americans don't raise their children to pick crops, besides that, their isn't one, but the illegals don't want them either, they are moving on the low paying jobs in restaurants and higher paying jobs in construction and in the Hotel industry. They don't want to work in the hot sun any more either. I am against illegal immigration, but I do realize we do need a guest worker program for farm workers, it's getting really bad for them.

http://snurl.com/pickers

gokart121

Probably because it's just one more lie, one more piece of overused rhetoric...

sway_ii

because its not true

75160

Because there are no such jobs. This is just a line they are trying to sell to the country to justify their criminal behavior.

La Gueta Micaela

Ditch digging, Septic tank cleaning, animal slaughter etc... You get the picture... You know anything that dirties the hands with blood, dirt or doo doo.

tiece20

When's the last time you know of an American who has applied for work in the orchards??? If you say you know someone, I'm sure you are lying, and even there were a few Americans who would do it....they wouldn't do it for the same amount of pay... Farmers are not rich people and if they had to pay out so much money just so that Americans would work in the fields than they would go broke! and so would their orchards! The price of YOUR food would go up in the stores so that they could try to stay in business, and then I'm sure you'd be b*tching about that too!!!

Twynnone

Were I work â€¦ we employ over 200 people during our peak season. We are an equal opportunity employer, and welcome all to apply. I have personally sat in on interviews where the job description is explained. Hence the 99.999% Hispanic employee population! Legal or not! (Who knowsâ€¦ weâ€™re not INS).

We have one (white guy, Anglo, citizen, homie,â€¦) whatever, as a forklift driver, and one as a truck driver. I have personally witnessed others turn down jobs, because of the job duties.

The hours are long, in the hot hot summer and in the cold cold winter, ... the pay is goodâ€¦ but the conditions donâ€™t meet the standards of some. So theyâ€™d rather not.

We do not EXPLOIT anyone!

"redneck"... that comment is what makes you a "redneck."

I know i always here that line,

" but they do the jobs you won't"

Maybe if the cheap as.s employers stoped employing illegals for little more than buttons in pay, Then kids who really need a leg up and get off the streets could start in these jobs with real pay.

Your question begs another question. With all the NAFTA jobs heading south. Why don't the Mexicans stay home ?

VWJennifer

Twynnone: Legal or not! (Who knows, we aren't INS)

Are you KIDDING me? You don't bother to check? Jeezus woman, you are most definitely part of the problem, and nowhere near part of a solution.
Get off this site and go through your employee's applications. Do something worthwhile with your time, and find the illegals.

bearsdad55

whatever job they can steal from us,for the last 12 years I owned an 18 wheeler and everywhere I went there there they were and another thing,I busted my butt for 3 years to pay for my truck and trailer and can't make any money with it,because some company out there will hire a bunch of aliens (alot of them illegal)who are willing to work for next to nothing,you can begin by thanking the idiot that now lives in our whitehouse and if Hillary gets elected,you can bet it will get worse f__kin liberals are ruing our country

Akkita

Because it is a lie thought up by bleeding hearts to give illegals an excuse for being in America.

My neighbor spent 3 years looking for work to support his son - no company in construction would hire him because he needed a decent wage to survive ( $8 an hour).

Illegals are everywhere - taking jobs and benefits from American workers who need work to survive. When they are hurt on the job, they have no health coverage so the American tax payer foots the hospital bills. Illegal worker get us all.

Seeing Clearly

Because it is a damned LIE. A LIE put forth by liberals and cheap azz employers who don't give a damn about America or Americans....

Americans will do any job if they are paid a fair wage to do it... always have, always will... given the chance.... now, will the employers step up to the plate and stop the treason...? That is the question...

ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE CRIMINALS and they are TERRORISTS.... those who support them or hire them... those people are TRAITORS... and that... is the TRUTH.

U B Happy

Migrant farm workers, doing seasonal work when crops are ready for harvest?.

Maybe until they find a better one. 2% of illegals work in the produce fields and 35% are on welfare!

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